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Food Manufacturers are Fraudulently Diluting High-Quality Food with Inferior - Sometimes DANGEROUS - Quality Junk

Submitted by George Washington on 02/04/2013 15:01 -0400

Some of the Fake Ingredients Added to Food May be DANGEROUS

In a predictable trend, food manufacturers are fraudulently diluting high-quality food with inferior quality items.

As ABC News reports:

A new scientific examination by the non-profit food fraud detectives the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), discovered rising numbers of fake ingredients in products from olive oil to spices to fruit juice.

"Food products are not always what they purport to be," Markus Lipp, senior director for Food Standards for the independent lab in Maryland, told ABC News.

In a new database to be released Wednesday, and obtained exclusively by ABC News today, USP warns consumers, the FDA and manufacturers that the amount of food fraud they found is up by 60 percent this year.

In addition, 70% of all ground beef was found to contain "pink slime".

Butchers use "meat glue" to create "bigger" cuts of beef, chicken, lamb and fish, even though it leads to much higher levels of food poisoning:

British hamburgers were found to contain horse meat and pork ... and it could happen in the U.S. as well.

Indeed, modern red meat is arguably not really meat at all.

And selling genetically modified food without labeling them as such is arguably food fraud as well, since a large majority of Americans want genetically modified foods to be labeled, genetically engineered foods have been linked to obesity, cancer, liver failure, infertility and all sorts of other diseases (brief videos here and here), and the Food and Drug Administration doesn't even test the safety of such foods.

Bad Policy Made Food Fraud Predictable

This trend was predictable because food manufacturers have been trying to hide food inflation in various ways.

The inflation in food prices, in turn, has been caused by quantitative easing - printed in an attempt to hide bank fraud - and the use of the printed money for wild speculation by the big banks has driven up food and related commodity prices.

And - instead of fighting for safer food - the Department of Justice and FDA often target whistleblowers and do everything they can to cover up wrongdoing. The Department of Agriculture is no better. And the Feds are treating people who expose abuse in factory farms as potential errorists ... and the states want the same power.

Widespread food fraud is the predictable result.

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Tue, 02/05/2013 - 08:34 | 3215852 nofluer

McDogfood is missing a marketing opportunity... As you say, the stuff never rots, spoils, or decomposes so it would make the perfect "survival" food! Just load up a back pack of McBurgers and you're good! The only drawback to that is you'd probably need to have Coke in quantity as I believe that's the processing solvent for McDogfood.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 17:58 | 3214490 Cathartes Aura

anyone still stubbornly eating at "fast fud" drive-thru troughs is beyond informing. . . willful inviting of ill health.

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 08:29 | 3215844 nofluer

I'm over 60 and I've been eating McDogfood all my life and have had no serious he he he he he he(WHAP!) health problems. with modernnnnnnn brain reset technoklogy, when my processors get ssssssstuk, a quick whap to the right sidee of my head resets and it's all go go go go go(whap)good.

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 07:08 | 3215793 Rick64

All this stuff is good for you. USDA approved or ignored, but don't buy or sell fresh milk.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 19:54 | 3214849 NotApplicable

Hell, I've quit eating at the "good" restaurants. I went from being too lazy to try and make my lunch, to too disgusted not to.

It's still sad though, going to Natural Grocers and seeing all of the processed poison they sell to well-intentioned idiots. Watching people making "informed" choices over which fake-meat soy patty to buy is really depressing.

Meanwhile, I can't even remember the last time I bought something that came in a cardboard box.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 17:46 | 3214460 Tijuana Donkey Show

I do eat deer hearts when I get one intact. Cooked right, it's great!

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 19:04 | 3214682 Fedaykinx

smoked? only way i've eaten them. and yes it was good.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 19:24 | 3214750 The Alarmist

Eat it??? Now you tell me. First I had trouble rolling the damn thing, and then I couldn't get it lit.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 20:16 | 3214919 Fedaykinx

you obviously didn't grind it up fine enough. just soak it in lighter fluid, problem solved.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 16:48 | 3214308 hooligan2009

http://naturalsociety.com/mcdonalds-mcrib-sandwich-a-franken-creation-of...

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 01:05 | 3215546 Matt

You know what hot dogs are made from?

The Great Outdoors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001dtJ0srBI

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 16:36 | 3214262 GCT

As the profit squeeze starts in earnest you can bet more and more bad things will be found in your food. Stop eating processed food and if you can afford it go to a local butcher or better yet get a freezer and pick your steer to butcher.

We cannot stop everyhing bad we consume. Most of you eat 9 to 10 pounds of soil a year. Most drink water from the tap and that is some real nasty stuff. Get a reverse osmosis system they are around 200 bucks and you will see alot of improvement your health. You can use the rejected water from the system to actually water your garden. If your not into farming at least raise your herbs and tomatose and some other easy varieties of vegetables if you can. This is not easy raising crops. But alot of fun. Buy seed that is not genetically altered and can you believe it these cost more then the other seeds.

If you like hot dogs and sausage get it kosher, you pay more but it is worth it. Most processed food has loads of MSG in it and that stuff is nasty. My wife and I prepare all of our food unless we are traveling or out to meet friends at the local restaurant. A corck pot can do wonders with food. Turn it on in the morning and come home to a great meal.

Jack Lalane said it best a long time when I was a kid. "If man makes it don't eat it." Processed food is bad stuff.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 20:46 | 3214989 Clycntct

Another one that I really liked was "if it tastes good spit it out"

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 17:49 | 3214472 Fred C Dobbs

I bought a water distiller and add trace minerals I bought at Swansons back to it when finished. ProPur sells a water filter that even gets fluoride out. Dr. Mercola had an article last year that said 25 studies showed fluoride was linked to brain damage.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 21:10 | 3215059 Papasmurf

Don't beleive everything Mercola tells you.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 22:57 | 3215298 A Nanny Moose

This is true of anybody.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 18:23 | 3214560 Dr. Sandi

If it weren't for brain damage, I doubt that many of us could face each new day.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 18:17 | 3214541 Cathartes Aura

FLOURIDEGATE An American Tragedy

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 16:27 | 3214245 Son of Loki

"Slime never sleeps, especially if it's pink."

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 18:23 | 3214555 Dr. Sandi

I always thought pink slime was running banks, not fluffing our meat.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 19:58 | 3214866 ebworthen

I'd post a pic of Jamie Dimon here if I could, and even then it might ruin someone's meal.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 16:11 | 3214185 e-recep

thanks to extremely low interest rates, operational profits keep on eroding. producers look for sneaky ways to lower their costs in orders to stay afloat. some reduce the size, some lower the quality, but all refrain from inflating the price as long as they can. the consumer is toast and very sensitive to price hikes.

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 08:19 | 3215835 nofluer

Avoidance of "price shock" in food prices is paramount. If you track your own market basket of the things you buy at the grocery store, you'll find a running "non-core" inflation level that has been hitting between 10% and 30% for about 3 years now...but the squirrels in the park have been holding value...

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 16:01 | 3214133 Cognitive Dissonance

Expanding profit margins are all that matter GW. This leads directly to expanding waistlines as well.

There is joy in (corporate) Mudville.

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 10:51 | 3216153 tango

We've eaten all over the world and the US is by far the safest (not the best). Most do not realize that food illness has been until the last few decades so common a problem that it was taken as the norm - rotten meat, mold, lack of variety. I've lost count of how often we've been told in Asia or South America to be vigilant since there is little oversight, regulation or food safety practices. Worse, many US foods come from these countries where preparation techniques are iffy. To eat well, use fresh produce, a butcher and high quality products. The problem is in the cheap food areas.

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 12:20 | 3216463 DaveyJones

not sure that a country that fails to label GMOs can be called "the safest."

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 19:45 | 3214809 NotApplicable

Realize though, that due to the Fed's support of the Treasury, it is no longer about expanding margins, but retaining them in the face of a currency that is being destroyed.

Honest businesses cannot compete in this environment, so they either die, or do what it takes to survive another day.

All in all, it's just another face of the fascist business model, where survival depends more upon government connections rather than satisfying customers.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 18:59 | 3214664 DaveyJones

and continuing the lie that modern agriculture (dependant on oil) is not falling apart. Kill two birds (and three humans) with one genetic stone.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 15:36 | 3214074 diogeneslaertius

"shut up and eat the poison slave-scum"

in other news, they put out my eye they did, for poaching on the king's land wot. (non factory-farmed meat is a conspiracy theory)

hopefully there are enough creds left on my chip for a slave-scum slimeburger, now with twice the special new ingredient- gosh im hopin, hopin upon a star!

soylent green, by people, for people (of people)

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 19:30 | 3214769 Buck Johnson

And it's going to get alot worse, trust me. With inflation going on and the degradation of services we will be lucky to see thousands not getting poisoned from industrial manufacturers.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 16:54 | 3214327 negative rates

Does that mean I can cut my oregano with some british tea?

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 17:04 | 3214355 Manthong

Geez, next thing you know we will have to start worrying about the quality of fresh cat as well.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/death-by-cat-meat-chinese-billionaire-poisoned/

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 06:29 | 3215777 lakecity55

We had a vietnamese restaurant move in a while back, and all the cats have disappeared. My neighbor got an order of takeout and said he found a collar with "Fluffy" written on it in his container.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 17:47 | 3214467 hooligan2009

meat is meat...no need to be such a pus.....oh never mind

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 17:51 | 3214478 economics9698

38% real beef.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 18:13 | 3214512 hedgeless_horseman

Maybe there is a reason it is illegal for anyone other than the USDA to test for mad cow disease in the USA?

Mrs. Horseman's manicotti stuffed with spinach from our garden, homemade ricotta and mozarella from our milk cow, and italian sausage made from our own grass-fed beef.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 23:20 | 3215356 batterycharged